Application Requirements

You must complete and submit the online application for admission (including personal and academic information, etc.). We will ask for basic biographic and demographic details, as well as explanations of your activities and interests. There is no application fee for the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program, but you must pay the application fee required of your graduate degree program.

Did you earn a degree at an institution outside the U.S.? To be eligible for graduate study, you must hold the equivalent of a U.S. bachelor's degree from a college or university of recognized standing. See Stanford's guidelines for minimum level of study. (For questions on this policy, contact the Office of Graduate Admissions, not the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program.)

Provide an unofficial or self-reported transcript of your academic performance in college and, if applicable, graduate school for each institution you attended for an academic year or longer. If you are unable to provide an unofficial transcript, you may download the self-reported transcript template here. Your transcript must, if applicable, include the degree conferred and the conferral date. We do not need transcripts from study-abroad experiences if those credits are included on your transcript.

​​Check with your graduate degree program for its standardized testing policies. If your graduate degree program does not require standardized tests, you are not required to submit them to the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program, either. You must submit any required test scores by the graduate degree program deadline, not by the time you apply to the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program. For any required standardized test scores, your self-reported scores will suffice for the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program.

Select two recommenders who know you well, whose opinions you trust, and who want to see you succeed. These individuals must be able to provide specific examples, anecdotes, and evidence of your ability and determination to make a difference. Register these recommenders through your online application as early in the application process as possible. Both letters of recommendation must be submitted by the application deadline: September 12, 2018 at 1:00 Pacific Time.

The application system will send each recommender a personalized link to submit her/his recommendation online. For verification purposes, register your recommender using her/his work email account, not a personal account such as Gmail, Yahoo!, etc. Here are a few things to consider as you choose recommenders:

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Your Knight-Hennessy Scholars recommendations are the only reference letters that we will review before we provide input to your graduate program.

Once your graduate program shares its feedback with Knight-Hennessy Scholars, we also will review your departmental recommendation letters. As such, your recommendation choices for the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program should make a compelling independent case, and also complement the references of your graduate program.

It's fine to ask the same person to provide recommendations for your graduate program and for Knight-Hennessy Scholars, but ensure that he/she submits distinctive letters of reference that address the questions each application requires.

We ask your recommenders to assess some character and leadership traits in the reference letters, and to address the following:

These responses help to see a different side of you. We ask you to answer two questions:

Please tell us eight improbable facts about you.

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Although we cannot meet in-person with each applicant to the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program, we invite you to submit a video on the below prompt that gives us a chance to "meet" you. There is no attention — zero emphasis! — on the "production value" of your video.

You must record the video using the online application. We cannot review videos on other sites, and you may not upload external videos to the online application.

Your video can be no longer than two minutes in duration. If you only need 30 seconds to answer, that's fine. There is no expectation or obligation for you to speak for the maximum time.

We will invite up to 150 finalists for the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program to visit Stanford, at our expense, for Immersion Weekend on February 9-11, 2019. Immersion Weekend will give you a chance to learn more about your graduate degree program, about the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program, about Stanford University, about your fellow Scholars, and about yourself. It is also an opportunity for Stanford to learn more about you.

Don't forget that you still need to apply separately to the specific Stanford graduate degree program that you want to pursue for fall 2019. This is essential! The deadline for your graduate degree program depends on the specific program, but will be earlier than that program’s standard admission deadline in almost all cases. When you submit your application to your graduate degree program, all materials must be complete.

*MD and JD/LLM/SPILS applicants: The deadline shown in this table corresponds to the date by when Stanford must receive your complete application materials. As it may take a couple of weeks for applications to be processed through AMCAS or LSAC, we strongly encourage you to submit your application well in advance of the posted deadline.**MBA applicants: Though the MBA Program has three application rounds, you must apply by the Round 1 deadline

Tips for your graduate degree program application

Flashing Colors Present Shoes Boys JUNGLEST towel for 7 USB Black Charging Light small LED Lovers Your application for your graduate degree program must stand on its own. Focus your application solely on your candidacy for that program. Do not consider the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program in your graduate degree program application.

We ultimately will receive access to the degree program applications — the reference letter(s), in particular — as we are making final decisions on candidates to invite to Immersion Weekend. As such, these departmental materials will complement your Knight-Hennessy Scholars application. Again, it's fine if you select the same person(s) to provide recommendations for the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program and for your graduate program. Ensure, however, that the letters themselves address the questions each application requires.